Three at UB named SUNY Distinguished Professors

“This distinction recognizes that UB faculty are among the best in the world and have a transformative impact through their research and scholarship.”

Provost Charles F. Zukoski

University at Buffalo

BUFFALO, N.Y. – University at Buffalo faculty members
Jonathan Dewald, Chunming Qiao and John E. Tomaszewski have been
named State University of New York Distinguished Professors, the
highest faculty rank in the SUNY system.

They were among 21 SUNY faculty members appointed to the
distinguished professor ranks by the SUNY Board of Trustees at its
meeting on May 3.

The rank of distinguished professor is an order above full
professorship and has three co-equal designations: distinguished
professor, distinguished service professor and distinguished
teaching professor.

Dewald, Qiao and Tomaszewski were all named Distinguished
Professors in recognition of their international prominence and
distinguished reputations within their chosen fields. According to
SUNY, “this distinction is attained through significant
contributions to the research literature or through artistic
performance or achievement in the case of the arts. The
candidate’s work must be of such character that the
individual’s presence will tend to elevate the standards of
scholarship of colleagues both within and beyond these
persons’ academic fields.”

“We are tremendously proud of our faculty who have
recently been appointed to the highest rank in SUNY,” said
Charles F. Zukoski, provost and executive vice president for
academic affairs. “This distinction recognizes that UB
faculty are among the best in the world and have a transformative
impact through their research and scholarship.”

Dewald, UB Distinguished Professor and director of graduate
studies in the Department of History, is internationally recognized
for his innovative scholarship in early modern French history. His
research has garnered many of the most prestigious national and
international fellowships and honors during an academic career
spanning more than 40 years, including fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation and the National Humanities Center.

He has twice been designated as Directeur d'Etudes Invité
at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. A
pre-eminent and prolific scholar and former chair of the UB history
department, his research contributions have advanced the historical
methods, theory, analysis and interpretation among historians with
a serious interest in social, cultural, economic, material and
gender history. The author of six major books and numerous articles
in the top journals of his field, he is acclaimed by colleagues as
someone who is “widely cited and respected, and
unquestionably one of the best historians of France of his
generation” and “one of the very few scholars who
have…reshaped his field” by changing how scholars look
and think about early modern French history.

Dewald is a resident of Buffalo and Toronto.

Qiao, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science
and Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
is one of the world’s leading authorities on network
protocols and architectures, and the inventor of optical burst
switching. He also has been at the forefront of pioneering research
on integrated wireless systems that have revolutionized the
smartphone industry and profoundly impacted the communication
infrastructure of the internet, as well as that of video,
multimedia and high-end digital services.

A fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE), Qiao has published more than 350 peer-reviewed
articles, approximately 140 journal papers, eight book chapters and
more than 210 symposium and conference papers. His research that
has been cited more than 20,000 times, including 2,700 citations to
date of his groundbreaking 1999 article on optical burst
switching.

He holds eight U.S. patents and has received almost 50 grants
and more than $8 million in total research funding. During the past
decade, he also has established himself as a leader in the design
and evaluation of Transportation Cyber Physical Systems with
connected and autonomous vehicles.

Qiao is a resident of Clarence.

Tomaszewski, professor and chair in the Department of Pathology
and Anatomical Sciences in the Jacobs School of Medicine and
Biomedical Sciences, is internationally renowned for his research
in pathology and prognostic factors in cancer, and development of
quantitative image analysis tools used in digital pathology and
automated cancer diagnostics.

He is a global leader in digital pathology and computational
modeling in histopathology and the informatics revolution in
pathology, where he contributes to international diagnostic
guidelines. A pioneer of high throughput detection of prostate
cancer in histologic sections using probabilistic models and
computer-aided diagnosis, he is a leader in the development of
multidimensional molecular data pairings with pathological
findings.

He is the author or co-author of more than 300 peer-reviewed
publications, 35 book chapters and 10 chapters dealing with his
special interests in renal pathology, renal transplant and
immunopathology. He holds four U.S. patents.